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It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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I don’t deny,” he said, “that there should be priests to remind men that they will one day die. I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that they are not dead yet.
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Matter Want Writing
The State did not own men so entirely, even when it could send them to the stake, as it sometimes does now where it can send them to the elementary school.
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Entirely Men School Stake
There is no better test of a man’s ultimate chivalry and integrity than how he behaves when he is wrong… A stiff apology is a second insult.
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Apology Integrity Men
A crown of roses is also a crown of thorns.
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Crow Duality Thorn
Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
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Causes Profound Real
It’s the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.
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Believe Common Firsts Sense
The Reformer is always right about what’s wrong. However, he’s often wrong about what is right.
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Christian Mass Reckless
Thanks are the highest form of thought.
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Appreciation Gratitude Thank
People talk of the pathos and failure of plain women; but it is a more terrible thing that a beautiful woman may succeed in everything but womanhood.
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Adventure Doubt Men
Original sin is the only doctrine that’s been empirically validated by 2,000 years of human history.
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Doctrine Sin Year
The chief object of education is not to learn things but to unlearn things.
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Education Justice Learning
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Beautiful Girl Love
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
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